On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:16 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > A simple distinction is that with LTSP the computer is just a dumb > terminal displaying programs being run on a more powerful server. > Stateless installs the OS image on the client where the programs are > run. This allows a person to detach the computer from the network and > still have it be usable. Don't confuse the "cached client" mode with stateless linux in general. The idea is that we treat an NFS root filesystem with only an X server installed (similar to LTSP) in the same framework as an NFS root filesystem with a full set of apps installed, or the cached client mode, or a live CD mode. The definition I would give of stateless linux in general is "sharing the same OS instance between multiple machines" (which implies the OS instance is read-only, and contains no per-machine state - those are the things that require OS changes) Havoc
